Comments on: 1. Twitter http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84 The Intersection Of Libraries, Computers and Web Trivialities. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jeff http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2777 Jeff Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:25:50 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2777 That is what I thought when I first started doing this. I could set up another account for the library and then make the streams specific. I found it was difficult to create a separate account since it is tied to the email address. Unless I wanted to establish several different email accounts for each twitter account, I would be out of luck. Furthermore, I can't parse my RSS feed to genre, subject, or age. I would have to do it manually. I am investigating changing it so it reads that way, but it is very time consuming. Just sending the new books to rss requires almost no interaction. Just set it up and it goes by itself. As long as we don't have an extremely busy day cataloging, it isn't too bad. Over time, people don't like it. Thanks for your response. There are a lot of ways to use twitter, but I believe small and targeted will work best. How to do that is the $64,000 question. That is what I thought when I first started doing this. I could set up another account for the library and then make the streams specific. I found it was difficult to create a separate account since it is tied to the email address. Unless I wanted to establish several different email accounts for each twitter account, I would be out of luck. Furthermore, I can’t parse my RSS feed to genre, subject, or age. I would have to do it manually. I am investigating changing it so it reads that way, but it is very time consuming. Just sending the new books to rss requires almost no interaction. Just set it up and it goes by itself. As long as we don’t have an extremely busy day cataloging, it isn’t too bad. Over time, people don’t like it. Thanks for your response. There are a lot of ways to use twitter, but I believe small and targeted will work best. How to do that is the $64,000 question.

]]> By: Robin http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2776 Robin Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:03:51 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2776 Jeff - thanks for the link to your twitter account! I knew about you all, but couldn't remember exactly what the name of your library was... As for the mass of information, that's something I worry about with our Twitter stream - for people who JUST want Bookmobile notices, they don't care when any of the other announcements come out. I've considered splitting the announcements up into separate Twitter accounts - one for Bookmobile stuff, one for press releases and other announcements of programs, etc., with all of them feeding into a single "mothership" twitter account as well. That way people could decide what they want. We don't twitter our books, however, so I may be completely uninformed about this - but splitting out the books into genres may ease the noise factor. This may not be possible with your workflow, but it's one way to handle overloading folks if it is possible! Jeff - thanks for the link to your twitter account! I knew about you all, but couldn’t remember exactly what the name of your library was… As for the mass of information, that’s something I worry about with our Twitter stream - for people who JUST want Bookmobile notices, they don’t care when any of the other announcements come out. I’ve considered splitting the announcements up into separate Twitter accounts - one for Bookmobile stuff, one for press releases and other announcements of programs, etc., with all of them feeding into a single “mothership” twitter account as well. That way people could decide what they want.
We don’t twitter our books, however, so I may be completely uninformed about this - but splitting out the books into genres may ease the noise factor. This may not be possible with your workflow, but it’s one way to handle overloading folks if it is possible!

]]> By: Jeff http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2775 Jeff Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:37:10 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2775 I've been able to feed new items to the twitter stream, http://twitter.com/cglibrary and see my instructions here http://gathernodust.blogspot.com/2007/04/twitter-update-or-how-i-was-able-to.html However, the reaction is that most people don't like it. There are too many books and it results in noise instead of signal. I’ve been able to feed new items to the twitter stream, http://twitter.com/cglibrary and see my instructions here
http://gathernodust.blogspot.com/2007/04/twitter-update-or-how-i-was-able-to.html

However, the reaction is that most people don’t like it. There are too many books and it results in noise instead of signal.

]]> By: chantelle http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2774 chantelle Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:09:24 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2774 How about a twittervangilist girl group? I am in...username "twot" How about a twittervangilist girl group? I am in…username “twot”

]]> By: tab http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2773 tab Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:40:31 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/archives/84#comment-2773 I too *love* twitter! I use their IM features most, but my library is apparently anti-technology so I only use it for personal use. I too *love* twitter! I use their IM features most, but my library is apparently anti-technology so I only use it for personal use.

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